Zabbix SIA is proud to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.0.0rc3 (Third Release Candidate of 2.0.0).

Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution. Zabbix is released under the GPL, thus it is free of charge for both commercial and non-commercial use. A complete text of the license is available at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt.

This release introduces major features along with numerous improvements and bug fixes. Please give it a try in non-production environment and report any issues to our bug tracking system at https://support.zabbix.com

This release is not for production use. It is a Release Candidate!

It is feature complete release but the default set of templates is not complete. More templates will be available in stable Zabbix 2.0.0.

The following sections describe the release in details and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements its main documentation. A brief overview of new functionality is available in Zabbix Wiki.

:: Added direct SNMP trap monitoring

New SNMP trap monitoring provides high performance way of collecting traps, pre-processors such as SNMPTT could be used as well.

Multiple network interfaces can be assigned to a single host, therefore one host may have several IP addresses with different checks for each IP.

:: Better translation framework for WEB interface

Zabbix interface translations are handled by GNU gettext module.

:: Auto-registration with passive checks

Added support of monitoring auto-registered hosts with passive checks. It is very handy for monitoring of Cloud-like environments.

:: Re-design of unknown events and triggers

Unknown triggers and events will no longer be displayed in Zabbix WEB interface, a special flag will be shown if Zabbix is not confident about status of triggers or events.

:: Low level discovery

Zabbix is able to discover your file systems, network interfaces and SNMP interfaces automatically with no manual work. One template can be used for hosts having different devices. Lost resources could be automatically deleted based on configurable retention period.

:: Much faster processing of escalations

Processing of escalations has been improved to work more efficiantly.

:: Optional graph legends

Graph legend can be optionally disabled.

:: Templated host-level screens

Templates may contain screens for easy maintenance and quick access to a set of performance graphs. The screens are available via host popup available when clicking on a host.

:: Database integrity

There are significant improvements in the database schema for better consistency and security of configuration and historical data.

:: Nanosecond resolution for historical data

Zabbix supports nanosecond resolution for historical data. If you are migrating from 1.8.x the option will be off by default. It is on for fresh setups.

:: Multiple URLs for map elements

A map element may have multiple links (URLs) to external resources.

:: Support of user scripts on Zabbix Agent and IPMI-based commands

User scripts can be used to execute any command on a monitored host using Zabbix or IPMI agents.

:: Custom trigger severities

Standard trigger severities can be customized to have a different names and colors for displaying in Zabbix front-end.

:: New login screen

The login screen was re-designed to have a better look.

:: New design for all configuration forms

The new forms has much better look and usability.

:: Advanced labels setting for maps

Label formats can be individually configured for different types of map elements on map level.

:: Remembering of map grid options

Zabbix front-end will save grid-options for each map. Map import/export is extended to support new grid-related attributes.

:: Automatic filling of DNS name for discovered devices

Zabbix will automatically fill in DNS names of newly discovered and auto-registered devices.

:: Export of events to CSV

Events visible in Zabbix front-end can be exported to a CSV file with a mouse click.

:: Support of SQLite3 for use on server-side

SQLite3 can be used on Zabbix Server side and works also with Zabbix front-end. Might be useful for embedded environments and low profile hardware.

:: Advanced filtering supported by Zabbix API

Two new options (ALL, ANY) can be used to control filtering on API level.

:: Host area functionality for maps

All host group elements can be displayed in a map area.

:: Support of disabling media types

Media types can be optionally disabled.

:: Support of vm.memory.size

The item is now supported for various platforms including BSD.

:: Not supported items are handled nicely by Proxies

The processing was improved so that proxies will report to the server about not supported items.

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